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Africa is home to more unknown history than known. A map of Africa does not begin to show the vastness of people, culture, food, living and ancient history. Established 2008 Chic African Culture and The African Gourmet are learning tools to meet the demand for better education about the entire continent of Africa.

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Saturday, March 5, 2016

Madagascar's 62 Mile High Razor Spiked Forest

The
minuscule chameleon, which is less than an inch long from nose to tail and can
sit on a human thumbnail, lives in Madagascar's 62 mile high Tsingy Razor Spiked Forest.

Tsingy forest

Tsingy
de Bemaraha is a Strict Nature Reserve since 1927. Strict Nature Reserves
are protected areas set aside for nature conservation and research established by law on government-owned lands.Tsingy is located in the Melaky Region of
Mahajanga Madagascar on 375,600 acres or 152,000 hectares of land.The minuscule chameleon which is less than an inch long from nose to tail is a species only found in Tsingy.

During the Late Cretaceous Period, India broke
away from Madagascar. Madagascar is around 587,041 sq km
or 226,657 sq miles in size which is the world's fourth-largest island. Madagascar’s
isolation in the Indian Ocean is the reason 90% of its animal and plant
life is found only on its island. There are well over 70 varieties of lemur, 30
types of chameleons and countless undiscovered plant species.

Tsingy limestone forest inside Tsingy de
Bemaraha has 62 miles or 100-meter tall razor spiked
limestone hills which are dotted in-between with sinkholes, caves, the deep red-orange Manambolo
River. According
to UNESCO, 11 species of Lemur; 6 bird species; 2 amphibian
species; 17 reptile species as well as a species of rodent, the Red Forest Rat, only exists
in the Tsingy de Bemaraha reserve of Madagascar.

About Madagascar

Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the
world. Because of its location Madagascar developed in isolation, the African
island nation is famed for its unique wildlife. Madagascar was one of the last
major regions on earth colonized.

The earliest settlers from present-day
Indonesia arrived between A.D. 350 and 550. The island attracted Arab and
Persian traders as early as the 7th century, and migrants from Africa arrived
around A.D. 1000. Madagascar was a pirate stronghold during the late 17th and
early 18th centuries, and served as a slave-trading center into the 19th
century.

Madagascar, also known as the Republic of
Madagascar, is an island in the Indian Ocean found off the southeastern coast
of Africa. Formerly an independent kingdom, Madagascar became a French colony
in 1896 but regained independence in 1960. The year 1960 witnessed the
independence from France of 17 Sub-Saharan African countries and 14 French
colonies.

Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the
world after Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo and the home for around 5 percent
of the world’s plants and animals. Madagascar has hundreds of types of animals
and plants which exist nowhere else such as ring-tailed lemurs.

The World Bank in 2011 estimated 92% of
Madagascar’s residents live on less than $2 per day, $430 per household a year.
Poverty has put pressure on the island's dwindling forests, home to much of
Madagascar's unique wildlife. Losing around 3 acres of forest in Madagascar has
a greater impact on global biodiversity than losing 3 acres of forest anywhere
else on Earth.

Madagascar is important to the environment of the
world. Nearly 80 percent of Madagascar’s population depends on making their
living and eating day to day through agriculture. Using slash and burn
cultivation techniques, farmers often destroyed what made their home so
ecologically important.

African spirituality plays a great part in the history of the world.Do not respond to a mosquito with a hammer because you will miss and hurt yourself. ~ Kenyan Proverb

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